Considering the work we do (corporate and criminal computer forensics) backup strategies are about our second most important thing :D So naturally it gets negle

Considering the work we do (corporate and criminal computer forensics) backup strategies are about our second most important thing :D So naturally it gets neglected... Gold Images: of the various OS configurations and requisite software so you can redeploy a server fairly quickly Diff Backups taken nightly of our various data stores / databases Weekly backups of main server data (MySQL, MSSQL, Hadoop clusters etc) In terms of software we use a couple of commercial solutions plus Bacula (which isn't really that great unless your using tapes...). Inspired by Tarsnap (the encryption and so forth) Im in the process of speccing up an idea to write out own in house version (I'd love to use Tarsnap directly but not a chance unfortunately) to replace our mish mash of software.